The pref would be to set the default value of the Get Msg button with
menu items to do the other option. The two options I see are:
1. Get Msgs for selected account
2. Get Msgs for all logged into accounts including selected account
(even if you aren't logged into that account in which case you'd get
prompted for your password).
I think it's important to have both of these options. Though I have to
admit that I do like your 3rd suggestion of getting messages for a
random account.
Scott
Matthew Thomas wrote:
> bhuvan wrote:
>
>> ...
>> I am working on a feature where we would like to have 'Get Msg' button
>> turned on in all cases or in most of
>> the cases. There are couple of issues involved here..
>> ...
>> We need a pref in mailnews prefs panel so that user can enable or
>> disable this feature.
>> A pref that says "Get Messages for all (authenticated)
>> accounts".
>
>
> Why? What would the alternative be? `Get messages for a random selection
> of accounts'?
>
>> 2. 'Get Msg' button visibility
>> a. When do we want to show this button and when to hide.
>
>
> The button should always be visible, just not necessarily enabled.
>
>> I think we should display it in all cases except when we select a
>> news server (note: not newsgroup).
>
>
> It should be enabled when a news server is selected. In that case, it
> would update the message counts for every group on that server, just as
> expanding the server's twisty does.
>
>> 3. 'Get Msg' button functionality
>> a. Get messages for all accounts vs all authenticated accounts.
>>
>> Authenticated accounts are the ones for which password is
>> remembered for.
>
>
> That's a poor choice of terminology. The intuitive meaning of
> `authenticated accounts' is those which require a password -- that is,
> all of them.
>
>> It will be appropriate to get messages only for authenticated
>> accounts.
>
>
> Why? The fact that I don't trust the rest of my family not to check my
> e-mail (and therefore don't ask for Mozilla to remember the password),
> shouldn't mean that I have to go around checking all my mail accounts
> individually. A single click of the `Get Messages' button should check
> all my accounts. (In the unlikely event that I just want to check an
> individual account, I should be able to do that from a `Get Messages'
> submenu in the `File' menu.)
>
>> ...
>
>
> Until I understand what the pref is for, I can't comment on the rest of
> your questions.
>
